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The Library Saga is a new series as of October 2025. It starts off short with Guardians of Genre to introduce the characters, but with each novel gets longer as the stakes grow to an epic conclusion with at least ten novels planned. The Library Saga is currently on Kindle Unlimited with Audible Plus, and paperbacks are also available.Welcome to the Everyday Town Library—where fiction leaps off the page, time rewinds through the card catalog, and the thesaurus might just eat you alive.In this ten-chapter genre-bending saga, Cliff Ball invites readers into a world where librarians battle curses, footnotes, and interdimensional chaos to protect the stories that shape reality. From haunted mic...

The margins are stirring. The genres are glitching. And the footnotes are starting to fight back.Bonnie thought she’d redirected a library page. Instead, she created a genre virus with editorial flair and a vendetta against exposition. Now the Redactor is rewriting reality — one trope at a time. Romance becomes courtroom drama. Cookbooks narrate in noir. And the Mystery Section won’t stop rhyming.As the Library fractures under narrative sabotage, Dewey the cat patrols the chaos, Nora Clue adjusts to her legally distinct identity, and Alexandria faces a mystery that points to her as the culprit. Meanwhile, overdue slips fall like snow, each stamped with a single word: Remember.To stop t...

When the Library fractures under the weight of algorithmic forces, the companions are thrust into a gauntlet of corrupted genres — sitcoms, fairy tales, mysteries, pulp war novels, and even the library’s own foundations. Each shard hunt becomes a parody of pop culture, but also a mirror of the heroes themselves: the Princess trapped in glass crowns, the Marine saluted by mannequins, the Detective’s notebook writing without her, the Sitcom Dad haunted by laugh tracks.As the Arcane Archivist’s echo grows stronger, the group realizes the shards aren’t just fragments of story — they’re pieces of the library’s origin. The final keystone lies in the Founder’s Wing, where the libr...

In the library, every story is tested. Some are judged, some are erased, and some are forced to endure their longest day.Alexandria thought she knew the rules of survival: endure the trials, cling to faith, and keep walking. But when the library turns its gaze fully upon her, she’s thrust into a gauntlet of judgment halls, forgotten shelves, and suffocating silences that threaten to erase her voice forever. Haunted by migraines that blur reality and faith that steadies her steps, she must face the Library’s cruelest truth — it doesn’t just want to test her, it wants to rewrite her.And as the library fractures, its corruption spills outward. Council hearings glitch into game shows, ne...